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Following is a sampling of March events at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Please use this information for calendar listings and postings and in planning your event-oriented coverage. Events are free to the public unless otherwise noted.
Jan. 28 – March 4
The Making of a King: William Shakespeare’s ‘Henry IV’ and ‘Henry V’
7:30 p.m. – Tuesdays - Saturdays
2 p.m. – Saturdays and Sundays, excluding opening weekend
Paul Green Theatre
An epic coming-of-age tale that follows the education of young Prince Hal from his unpromising start in bawdy houses and taverns under the tutelage of the larger-than-life Sir John Falstaff to his rise as one of England’s greatest monarchs, King Henry V. These two plays are performed in rotating repertory. Ticket prices range from $10 to $45. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit http://www.playmakersrep.org or call (919) 962-7529. March 1
The Wise Men of Chelm
5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Hyde Hall
This academic lecture on Eastern European Jewry’s favorite folk tradition and its German origins will be led by Ruth von Bernuth, assistant professor of early modern German studies. For more information, visit http://www.unc.edu/ccjs/events.html. Process Series: ‘Scar Tissue’ and ‘Klutz’
7:30 p.m.
Kenan Theatre at the Center for Dramatic Art
Two short works by Latino playwright Gabriel Rivas Gomez, “Scar Tissue” is about hearts in disrepair, both literally and figuratively, and “Klutz” is about strength of mind and weakness of body. This is part of the Process Series, in which professional authors and playwrights present their works in progress and afterward receive critiques from the audience. For more information, contact Joseph Megel at
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or (919) 843-7067. Faculty Recital: Richard Luby and Clara Yang
7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
Hill Hall Auditorium
Richard Luby, violin, and Clara Yang, piano, will perform. For more information, visit music.unc.edu or call (919) 962-1039. Ackland Film Forum: ‘The Loving Story’
7 p.m.
Screening at the Varsity Theatre
“The Loving Story,” a documentary film that tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, examines the drama, history and current state of interracial marriage and tolerance in the United States. Following the film, a panel discussion will be held, moderated by Gene Nichol, director of UNC Law School’s Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity. Tickets are free for students and $4 for the general public. The Center for the Study of the American South also will host a symposium in conjunction with the screening on March 2 in Hyde Hall. For more information, visit http://www.uncsouth.org or http://www.ackland.org. March 2-4
Activated Art: An Evening of Ekphrastic Theatre
8 p.m. – Friday
5 p.m. – Saturday and Sunday
Ackland Art Museum
Activated Art is an evening of short, original one-act plays by UNC faculty members inspired by and responding to works in the Ackland’s permanent collection. These original plays expand upon dramatic narratives in painting and sculpture and capture their essential nature. At each performance, the four plays will be performed consecutively in the Ackland’s galleries in front of the works themselves. Tickets cost $10. For more information, contact Allison Portnow at
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or (919) 843-3687. March 4
Guided Tour: Look, Linger and Learn at the Ackland
2 p.m.
Ackland Art Museum
A guided tour of the exhibition, “The Spectacular of Vernacular” will be held. Lorie Mertes, an independent contemporary curator, discusses “Spectacular Highlights.” For more information, email www.ackland.org. March 5 and 12
Reflections on 25 Years in UNC-Chapel Hill Athletics
7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center
On two Monday evenings, former Athletic Director Dick Baddour will discuss a variety of topics, including the NCAA investigation, hiring and dismissal of coaches, facility development, conference expansion and leadership characteristics of recent coaches. The second half of the each evening will be devoted to a Q&A with participants. Dick Baddour has served the university for 45 years. He has served the last 25 years in athletics, most recently as director of athletics for 15 years. Registration costs $50. For more information and to register, visit http://www.fridaycenter.unc.edu. March 6 and 7
The Genius of Bach, with Chancellor Emeritus James Moeser
7 p.m.-9 p.m.
William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center
Carolina Performing Arts and the Friday Center present a special lecture series by Chancellor Emeritus James Moeser on “The Genius of Bach.” These lectures are presented in anticipation of upcoming performances conducted by Ton Koopman with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir. Participants will attend one of the two scheduled performances at UNC’s Memorial Hall on either March 13 or 14. Registration costs $50, which include the price of one concert ticket. For more information and to register, visit http://fridaycenter.unc.edu. March 7
Art for Lunch: Palmyrene Funerary Relief Sculpture at the Ackland
Noon-1 p.m.
Ackland Art Museum
Ashleigh Raabe, Kress Intern at the Ackland Art Museum, explores the Palmyrene funerary relief sculpture in the Ackland’s permanent collection. Raabe is a doctoral student in art history at UNC currently writing a dissertation titled “Second Style Painting and Social Ritual: The House of the Cryptoporticus at Pompeii.” Registration is free to museum members and UNC One Card holders and $5 for nonmembers. For more information, contact Allison Portnow at
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or (919) 843-3687 or visit www.ackland.org. March 9
Book Club Night
7 p.m.-9 p.m.
Ackland Art Museum
To participate, read “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” download the study guide and bring your book club for an evening at the Ackland. Enrollment is limited, reservations are recommended. For more information, visit www.ackland.org. To make reservations, call (919) 843-3687 or email
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. March 10
Drawing in the Galleries
10 a.m.-noon
Ackland Art Museum
Amanda Hughes, director of external affairs, leads participants in a creative exploration of a particular object in the Ackland’s collection. For more information, visit http://www.ackland.org. The Moseley Manuscript Map of North Carolina of 1737
9:30 a.m. – coffee and pastries
10 a.m.-noon, program
Wilson Library
Independent scholar Michael McNamara discusses a recently discovered manuscript map that reproduces, with some new information, “A New and Correct Map of the Province of North Carolina” by Surveyor General Edward Moseley, published in 1733. The Moseley map was one of the first to accurately show the coastal regions and to identify interior settlements in the colony. For more information, visit www.lib.unc.edu. March 13
A Tribute to Son House
5 p.m. - reception
5:30 p.m. - lectures
7:30 p.m. – tribute concert
Wilson Library and Great Hall
Eddie James “Son” House Jr. was born on March 21, 1902, in Riverton, Miss. House was a Baptist preacher who became a legendary bluesman recording for Paramount Records, Alan Lomax and “rediscovered” during the 1960s folk revival. Daniel Beaumont, author of “Preachin’ the Blues” (Oxford Press), and manager and photographer Dick Waterman will lead lectures. Rory Block and John Mooney will perform. Tickets to the concert cost $5-$15. For more information, contact Liza Terll at
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or (919) 962-4207. March 13 and 14
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, with Ton Koopman
7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir will perform a concert highlighting some of the greatest works of Bach. Tickets cost $10 for students and $25-64 for the general public. For more information, visit http://www.carolinaperformingarts.org. To purchase tickets, call the Memorial Hall Box Office at (919) 843-3333. March 14
Campus Recreation Pie Run
4 p.m.-6 p.m.
Student Recreation Center
For more information, visit http://campusrec.unc.edu. March 15
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall
The first jazz composer to win the Pulitzer Prize in music, New Orleans native Wynton Marsalis also was the first artist to win jazz and classical Grammy Awards in the same year. His Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra features 15 of jazz music’s leading soloists, drawing from an extensive repertoire and rich history of the jazz greats. Tickets cost $49-$119. For more information, visit http://www.carolinaperformingarts.org. To purchase tickets, call (919) 843-3333. March 16 and 17
Process Series: ‘Harvesting Pomegranate Dreams’
8 p.m.
Historic Playmakers Theatre
Puppets emerge from within a veil and twist and turn their way through ancient wisdoms on mothering, war, migration, birth and death. For more information, contact Joseph Megel at
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or (919) 843-7067. March 18
Music in the Galleries: Fracking Music! Part 2
1 p.m.-5 p.m.
Ackland Art Museum
A new composition creates an audio-environment using only live- and pre-recorded sounds. All sounds were recorded during the installation, opening and viewing phases of “The Spectacular of Vernacular.” For more information, visit http://www.ackland.org. Spectacular Self / Vernacular Self
2 p.m.
Hanes Art Center
Offered on the final day of the Ackland Art Museum’s exhibition “The Spectacular of Vernacular,” this program will feature conversations about the intersections of autobiography and the vernacular in contemporary art. Participants will include Darsie Alexander, chief curator, Walker Art Center, and exhibition organizer; Marc Swanson, exhibiting artist; and Cary Levine, assistant professor of art at UNC-Chapel Hill. Peter Nisbet, chief curator of the Ackland Art Museum, will moderate. For more information, contact Allison Portnow at (919) 843-3687 or
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. Michael Rowe: Napoleon and the Cult of Charlemagne
5 p.m.-7 p.m.
Hyde Hall
The lecture reexamines Napoleon’s encouragement of the cult centered on the medieval Frankish emperor, Charlemagne. It explores the Napoleonic state’s co-option of the cult in its efforts both to integrate its newly-acquired German holdings, and to win over public opinion in the nominally-independent states beyond the eastern borders of the formal French Empire. For more information, visit http://www.unc.edu/ncgs/seminars.html. March 19
We’re No Angels: Striving for Perfection in Ancient Jewish Literature
7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center
Christine Hayes, professor of religious studies at Yale University, will lead an exploration of diverse ancient Jewish conceptions of the nature of human perfection and whether or not humans are, or should aspire to be, like angels. For more information, visit http://www.unc.edu/ccjs/events.html. March 19-23
Morgan Writer-in-Residence: Athol Fugard
Various times
UNC campus
The Morgan Writer-in-Residence Program brings writers of distinction to campus to teach courses, meet with students and faculty and to give lectures, readings, and symposia. Athol Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor and director. For more information, visit http://englishcomplit.unc.edu/morgan or http://fugard.web.unc.edu. March 20
Southern Roots, Enduring Bonds: African American Families in North Carolina
5 p.m. – exhibit opening and reception
5:30 p.m. – program
Wilson Library
Celebrate the opening of the exhibition “Southern Roots, Enduring Bonds,” which debuts material acquired through the African American Family Documentation Initiative, including items from the Lewis Family papers. The program will include remarks from Yvonne Holley, daughter of J.D. Lewis, UNC faculty and staff, and community members familiar with the Lewis Family. For more information, visit http://library.unc.edu. March 20 and 21
Circa
7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall
In a fusion of dance, extreme circus skills and raw emotion, Australia’s Circa performers push their own dangerous limits at breakneck speed and using a barrage of sound, light and projection. Tickets cost $10 for students and $10-$49 for the general public. For more information, visit http://www.carolinaperformingarts.org. To purchase tickets, call (919) 843-3333. March 21
‘Sly Stone: Coming Back for More’
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
As part of its Lunch and a Movie series, the Stone Center presents this film by director Willem Alkema about Sly Stone, leader of Sly and the Family Stone, the 1960s and 1970s group that helped to define the aesthetics and politics of a generation. Sly and the Family Stone was racially integrated and featured both men and women performing unforgettable tunes rooted in psychedelic funk, rock, soul and R&B. For more information, visit http://sonjahaynesstonectr.unc.edu. ‘The Theater Today’ with Athol Fugard, Ed Strong and Joseph Haj
2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Hyde Hall
As part of its 25th anniversary series, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities will host a conversation on “The Theater Today” between playwright Athol Fugard, Ed Strong, producer of Broadway hit “Jersey Boys,” and Joseph Haj, producing artistic director of Playmakers Repertory Company. For more information, visit http://iah.unc.edu/calendar/strong-fugard. March 21-25
Videmus@25: Festival on the Hill
Various times
UNC campus
Videmus is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of the music of women, African American and under-represented composers through recordings, concerts, scholarships and educational programs. This multiday festival, a collaboration between Videmus and the UNC Music Department, features panels, lectures, masterclasses and performances. For more information and to register for events, visit www.videmus.org. March 22
Hutchins Lecture Series: Tomiko Brown-Nagin
4:30 p.m.
Kresge Foundation Common Room (039), Graham Memorial Hall
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law, has written widely on civil rights history and law. The James A. Hutchins lecture series promotes insights from Southern arts and letters from scholars with a wide range of academic research. For more information, visit www.uncsouth.org. Herbie Hancock
7:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall
Pianist and composer Herbie Hancock won an Academy Award for his “Round Midnight” film score and 14 Grammy Awards, including 2008’s Album of the Year. Tickets cost $10 for students and $49-$119 for the general public. This concert is part of the Videmus@25 festival. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit http://www.carolinaperformingarts.org or call (919) 843-3333. March 26
Clinical Lecture Series: Mitch Prinstein, Ph.D.
Noon-2 p.m.
School of Social Work Auditorium
Prinstein will speak on adolescent peer victimization, depression and self-injury. Sign-in and a catered reception will begin at 11:30 a.m. Pre-registration is required. For more information and to register, visit http://ssw.unc.edu/sswevents. African Diaspora Lecture delivered by Jeffrey Ogbar, Ph.D.
7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
Jeffrey Ogbar will deliver the lecture “Future Bound: How Will Historians Remember Today’s Hip-Hop Generation?” Ogbar’s research interests include the 20th century United States with a focus in African-American history. For more information, visit http://sonjahaynesstonectr.unc.edu. March 27 and 28
‘Whispering Pines’ – Shana Moulton and Nick Hallett
7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall
New York video/performance artist Shana Moulton’s multipart ‘Whispering Pines’ series features her alter ego Cynthia, a confused, hypochondriac agoraphobe prone to colorful hallucinations and absurd fantasies. Tickets cost $10 for students and $20 for the general public. For more information, visit http://www.carolinaperformingarts.org or call (919) 843-3333. March 28
PlayMakers Vision Series – ‘Noises Off’
6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
Center for Dramatic Art
Enjoy refreshments while meeting the director, cast members and creative team, and getting a behind-the-scenes look at the vision and design for PlayMakers’ production of Michael Frayn’s comedy. RSVP by calling (919) 962-7529, as space is limited. March 29
Maidens Call it Love-in-Idleness
5 p.m. - exhibition viewing
5:30 p.m. - program
Wilson Library
Mary Floyd-Wilson, UNC English professor, will lead a discussion about potions, passion and fairy knowledge in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in conjunction with the Rare Book Collection exhibition “Nature and the Unnatural in Shakespeare’s Age.” For more information, visit http://library.unc.edu. Music on the Porch
5 p.m.-7 p.m.
UNC Center for the Study of the American South
This series brings talented, knowledgeable and eclectic musicians from around the region together to play and engage in discussion about sense of place, the creative process and how the rich culture of the South influences music and musicians, with specific attention given to the thriving North Carolina music community. For more information, visit http://www.uncsouth.org. March 30
Critical Speakers Series: Wendy Wall
4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Wilson Library
Wendy Wall, from Northwestern University, will speak on “Recipes for Thought: Shakespeare and the Art of the Kitchen.” For more information, contact David Baker at (919) 962-4059 or
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. Triangle Race Conference with Howard Winant, Ph.D.
7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
Duke University, North Carolina Central University and UNC will host a conference on race titled, “Research and Resistance: Race Across the Disciplines.” For more information, visit http://sonjahaynesstonectr.unc.edu. ONGOING EVENTS Nov. 8, 2011 – March 2, 2012
Kin and Community: African American Lives at Stagville
9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Mondays – Fridays
9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturdays
1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Sundays
Wilson Library, 4th floor gallery
For more information, please visit http://www.lib.unc.edu.
http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/news/index.php/2011/10/stagville-bennehan-cameron-lecture/
Feb. 23 - May 31, 2012
A Dialogue between Old and New: Notable Buildings on the UNC Campus
9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Mondays – Fridays
9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturdays
1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Sundays
(Closed on University holidays)
Wilson Library, North Carolina Collection Gallery
This exhibition looks beyond architectural styles to reveal the stories behind notable structures on the UNC campus. For more information, please visit http://www.lib.unc.edu.
Feb. 27 – June 8, 2012
Nature and the Unnatural in Shakespeare’s Age
9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Mondays – Fridays
9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturdays
1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Sundays
(Closed on University holidays)
Wilson Library, Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room
A selection of the 16th- and 17th-century English and Continental books from the Rare Book Collection explores early modern understanding of nature and the unnatural in Shakespeare’s time. The exhibition includes herbals, natural histories, travel accounts, agricultural works, cosmetics manuals, books on magic and witchcraft, and Shakespeare folios. It is presented in conjunction with the conference, “Shakespeare and the Natural World,” sponsored by the department of English and comparative literature. For more information, please visit http://www.lib.unc.edu.
March 1 – May 31, 2012
Knowledge Building(s): The Libraries at the University
Open during library hours
Davis Library Gallery
From its beginnings in a small room in the President’s house to today’s modern facilities, the University Library is at the crux of Carolina’s development as a major research institution. Drawing from the rich collections of University history in Wilson Library, this exhibit will document the growth and history of the University libraries. For more information, visit http://library.unc.edu. March 15 – July 1
Southern Roots, Enduring Bonds: African American Families in North Carolina
9 a.m.-5 p.m. – Mondays – Fridays
9 a.m.-1 p.m. – Saturdays
1 p.m.-5 p.m. – Sundays
(Closed on University holidays)
Wilson Library, 4th Floor Gallery
This exhibit highlights several African American families in North Carolina, many of which have long and deep roots in the state that span generations. From the 19th century letters of Dr. Manassa Pope in Raleigh to Grigsby Family Reunion programs in the late 20th century, these materials illustrate the strength of African American families as well as the larger black community, and how they have persisted and endured across time and place. For more information, visit http://library.unc.edu. UNC-Chapel Hill calendars: http://www.unc.edu/events/
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